The High Performance Computing and Data Platform Owner is responsible for delivering the capabilities required by researchers, data consumers and platform teams meeting the various challenging computing and/or data demands crossing the company functional departments. This role extends advanced computing engineering services, bridges the gap between scientific domain and computing technology.

A successful High Performance Computing and Data Platform Owner will:

• Support and extend Biogen’s Hybrid Cloud solution by closely working with IT and business stakeholder.
• Enhance strategic vision for high-performance computing, including priorities, resourcing, timelines, and dependencies in collaboration with Biogen IT and business partners.  Minimize service disruptions.
• Provide expertise, leadership, and architectural innovation in all layers of the HPC infrastructure to ensure an effective, scalable platform capable of supporting the dynamic workloads for the Biogen scientific community.
• Actively manage user groups and align stakeholder expectations for capabilities roadmaps, long range planning and delivery plans.

Key Activities:

Analyzing:  Assess and document platform composition and condition, identify stakeholders and expectations on run (i.e., operations), exploit (e.g., requests) and new and current projects and issues.

Defining:  Define and develop the platform roadmap, including relevant performance measures, addressing current issues and challenges, future plans for changes and opportunities for improvement.

Engaging:  Proactively socialize the platform roadmap with business functions using the platform – and with other platform, process, and partnership managers across IT.  Collect feedback for improvement, ensure alignment and coordination, and avoid redundancy or conflicting demands.

Operating:  Execute on the platform roadmap, actively manage the platform as a set of interconnected assets and manage cross-platform dependencies.  Develop and present financial analysis and planning associated with platform roadmaps.

Evaluating:  Assess the health and operational performance of the platform against established metrics.  Achieve and improve operational service metrics and/or targets associated with platforms.

Improving:  Identify and realize opportunities to increase the value of the platform by extending cost-effective use and/or reducing platform costs through rationalization, consolidation, streamlining, and price negotiation.

• Experience (10+ yr) with high performance computing platforms in life sciences (Biotech/Pharma)
• Experience with cloud computing - Amazon Web Service (AWS), etc.
• Experience managing Petabyte scale Storage platforms
• Experience with Data Management concepts, tools, and processes
• Strong analytical and communication skills.  Ability to interact with a wide variety of stakeholders and with experience, capable of presenting the business side of technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with design, deployment, support and troubleshooting in a complex computing environment
• Experience working in a regulated industry -
• Experience managing a team of HPC Engineers and other resources

Minimum Knowledge Requirements:

• Master’s Degree or higher in a relevant field, such as Data Science, Computer Science, Life Sciences or equivalent
• Thorough understanding of High Performance Computing technologies and applications
• Scientific background or degree preferred

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.